There are dozens of good design newsletters out there, but none of them are entirely devoted to the tools that push the boundaries of what we’re able to design. Please welcome: Design Tools News! A monthly edition where I’ll share all interesting things happening in the world of design tools.

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Sketch Plugin Hackathon Update

I’m amazed to see that over 100 people from 24 different countries alreadyapplied for the Hackathon!

We already have a strong line-up of speakers confirmed and there will be more great talks added soon.

For those that didn’t apply yet, it’s not too late! You have until Thursday August 31. That’s just 2 more days. Go, go go!

If you work with After Effects, you know it can be a daunting task to get designs imported the right way. With this plugin from Google you can now import Sketch layers into After Effects without redrawing everything first in Illustrator.